BUTTERFLY EFFECT CHALLENGE - fullsplice cue for donation

Hello Friends! I invite you to participate THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT CHALLENGE!
Get a fullsplice pool cue for $100 donation. Free shipping Worldwide.

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On this messege I’m gonna collect all the info about the challenge at the moment.

1) The challenge is still actual. bzhtry@gmail.com is the Paypal. Please write your contacts as a description for a donation or contact me in any comfortable way.

2) The challenge is made by Shuriken Custom Cues. They offering a fullsplice pool cue for $100 donation. All available money go to the Jar, overall collected amount you can check by this link. The goal for the next bunch of cues is $1300. At the moment we can afford $10-$15 from $100 donation, so it’s 130 cues to go for the next bunch. Any amount above $100 will go to the jar. I encourage you to send more than $100 :)

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3) Standard parameters of the cue are the followed:

Length: 152cm (60″)
Weight: 540g (19oz)
Tip: 12mm (ferrule\fiber)
Butt: 30mm

4) Radial, 3/8-10, Uniloc QR for donations from $150.

Estimated processing time is 2-4 month. It is depending on a bunch quantity. The more the number – the faster cues are sent.
So I encourage everyone to post photos and videos of your cues with the hashtag #butterflyeffectchallenge and the logo.

Those who haven’t heard from me for a long time – please contact in any comfortable way. Many cues are complete and waiting for your shipping info confirmation.
Facebook: @shurikencues, Instagram: @shurikencues, Email: shurikencues@gmail.com, paypal: bzhtry@gmail.com

Your support is hard to overestimate. Thank you all! The project is growing like Paulownia Tomentosa and it is just wonderful. Keep up good work!

“A butterfly can flutter its wings over a flower in China and cause a hurricane in the Caribbean.”

P.S. If you ever worked with the Paulownia wood specie, please share your experience.
If you haven’t heard of Paulownia Tomentosa, I’ll do some research and make a separate post about it in the future.

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Want to do something for Anton? Take the "delivery" pressure attributable to your donation from his shoulders -- tell him you will wait to the end like I did. No, I am not crazy, not completely anyway. I just like to do good things for folks who deserve it, and Anton deserves it as he is doing a very good thing for all of us.

I took my cue from the queue a long time ago because I did not like how some folks were acting about delivery of their cue. (This was never a straightforward business transaction and should not have been treated as such -- at least not in my mind.) I figured Anton had plenty of pressures of every sort on him, so I decided to take at least one microscopic worry from him. Do I really care about getting my Butterfly Challenge Cue? You bet your sweet ass I do, but there are a few things associated with Ukraine and Anton which are way more important to me.

This is from my email to Anton today:
"I am Biloxi Boy on AZB. I am still proud to be, and remain, at the end of the list. As I previously advised, I do not expect delivery until everyone else has theirs. Just to make certain you have my correct info on your list, here is my current shipping info:"

I do not know if any of y'all are "built" anything like me, but I ask all of you to look deep inside and find what else there is that you are able to do for Anton and Ukraine and do it -- delay your delivery, buy another cue, tell others about the Butterfly Challenge (post something in your pool hall), talk to everyone about the war in Ukraine and what victory or defeat will mean for them, for Europe, for us . . . Especially in light of certain recent remarks made by certain of our politicians, it is more important than ever that we show the people of Ukraine, and the World, where the loyalty of America truly resides.

As for us, "We can pay it now, or pay it later."

All glory to Ukraine!
 
Biloxi Boy said:
Bear with me on this one. I am throwing this idea out as a possible marketing idea for Anton and an "ordering" idea for the rest of us -- "Shuriken Cues in School Colors". (The idea is not originally mine. One of our members recently wrote that his BC Cue had the bonus benefit to him as it was done in his school colors. West Virginia if I remember right. I searched for the post but could not find it, so someone please "remember" him to me.)

Just think if LSU fans could get a good cue in Purple and Gold, or for Florida fans -- orange and blue. Y'all get the idea. If I owned a pool hall in a college town, I would keep a couple "School Cues" in stock for resale to local fans.
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LOL. If it had been a snake, I'd been bit, and most probably by now, dead. The post I was looking for was on the same page: in post 126, mrbilloo said "Got mine also, havent [sic] had time to play yet.....also school colors (WV). a collectible!!!!" It was the "WV" that got me.

So, it is good to know that I still have some semblance of memory remaining. And returning to my point, anyone who needs an Xmas gift for a pool playing Mountaineer, student or alum, here y'all go. Send your orders to Anton today.
 
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I received my cue from Anton today. It is very high quality. I'm blown away by the fit and finish. I made a contribution a few months ago, felt great about it and basically forgot about it. It is like Christmas in September to receive an email confirming my address and then the cue a few weeks later. I paid a few extra dollars for a radial pin. It fits my OB Fusion shafts better than my player. It is a great cause, wonderful people, and an outstanding product. Such a nice surprise to have a cue waiting in the mailroom this afternoon.
 
2 butterfly challenge cues showed up today. (one shown)
Looking forward to trying it out this weekend. Feels very solid and well made.
No ferrule? or very small ferrule? great looking cue.
 

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Still want to shoot said:
Look at the photos above paul, of what i got.
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Wow! I skipped over that photo. You are right. That seems to be more like a fat black pad than a thin ferrule. There is ferrule made of buffalo horn that is black but is that this? ..... I know you don't want to scratch it but the pad can be cut with box cutters while it would only scratch a ferrule.

Carbon-fiber shafts are hollow and the ferrule there (a so-called vault plate) sits inside the carbon-fiber tube with a lip visible above the CF-shaft end. I doubt its anything like that in a maple shaft.
 
Paul_#_ said:
Wow! I skipped over that photo. You are right. That seems to be more like a fat black pad than a thin ferrule. There is ferrule made of buffalo horn that is black but is that this? ..... I know you don't want to scratch it but the pad can be cut with box cutters while it would only scratch a ferrule.

Carbon-fiber shafts are hollow and the ferrule there (a so-called vault plate) sits inside the carbon-fiber tube with a lip visible above the CF-shaft end. I doubt its anything like that in a maple shaft.
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What the heck are you talking about?

Teach Me Please!

Have you forked up a C-Note yet?
 
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What the heck are you talking about?
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The photos below are from two of Anton's cues (posts #181, 232-233). The cue in the photo on the left has a ferrule about 8mm thick while the cue in the photo on the right appears to have a ferrule about 2mm thick. Is that really a 2 mm ferrule or is that a 2mm pad on the right?


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Paul_#_ said:
Wow! I skipped over that photo. You are right. That seems to be more like a fat black pad than a thin ferrule. There is ferrule made of buffalo horn that is black but is that this? ..... I know you don't want to scratch it but the pad can be cut with box cutters while it would only scratch a ferrule.

Carbon-fiber shafts are hollow and the ferrule there (a so-called vault plate) sits inside the carbon-fiber tube with a lip visible above the CF-shaft end. I doubt its anything like that in a maple shaft.
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I scrolled back to post 221. I think my two cues are actually pictured there, because they are all numbered. its hard to tell because it isnt focused.
Maybe this latest batch he went with out ferrules.
 
This photo is from post #221. Those are likely short black ferrules. Anton states that his cues have carbon (black) ferrules in post #89. The shorter ferrule (and that is short!) means less deflection.


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Paul_#_ said:
This photo is from post #221. Those are likely short black ferrules. Anton states that his cues have carbon (black) ferrules in post #89. The shorter ferrule (and that is short!) means less deflection.


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Mine has no ferrule, it's just wood. I was surprised when I changed the tip, but honestly I love how it plays.
 
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